The Daily Digest: 9-5-08

Posted at 9:25 AM on September 5, 2008 by Tom Scheck (2 Comments)
Filed under: Daily Digest

Good morning. The Digest is running on fumes so we'll keep this brief.

The conventions are over and the campaigns now make their case directly to voters. John McCain and Sarah Palin are in Wisconsin and Michigan today. Barack Obama and Joe Biden will be in Pennsylvania.

Get ready for lots of talk of change.

McCain/Palin

McCain said last night that he's the candidate to bring about change. AP, Forum Communications, the New York Times and Politico have stories.

Some protesters disrupted McCain's speech.

David Gergen says McCain proves that he will be formidable.

A new ABC poll says half don't think Sarah Palin has enough experienced to be president.

A GOP operative gives Minnesota Republicans some campaign advice.

Obama/Biden

Barack Obama said the surge in Iraq has exceeded expectations.

It looks like DFL Sen. Amy Klobuchar is about to get busy. Obama is set to dispatch his female surrogates to counter Palin.

Obama raised $10 million after Palin's speech.

Nader

Ralph Nader argues to be included in the debates.

Pawlenty

MPR and AP take a look at Tim Pawlenty's future.

Protests

An antiwar protest ends in hundreds of arrests.

A KARE11 photographer was one of those arrested.

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Comments (2)

(assuming that Obama somehow wins)

Palin/Pawlenty '12?

Posted by Paul | September 5, 2008 9:57 AM

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The best Daily Digest item today was Tom Scheck's story on the GOP operative who "came down from the mountaintop" to give the local MN Republicans the latest euphemisms. ("A GOP operative gives Minnesota Republicans some campaign advice."

That was real treat for me, to see the GOP propaganda actually being made:

"And by the way, don't call it offshore drilling -- call it 'deep sea exploration.' Offshore drilling makes you think, 'Is that your daughter there, that she's going to be swimming in oil.'"

--Don't call offshore drilling "off shore drilling" anymore, even though that's what it is; call it "springtime, lollipops and rainbows," that plays better with people who don't want off shore drilling.

And this one, from the same guy:

""Obama('s energy policy) is the Middle Eastern approach. McCain is the American approach."

Now that's really brilliant, breath-taking. Because calling Obama's energy policy the Middle Eastern approach (even though he's the candidate of the party that votes tax credits to American development of wind and solar)--it's insinuating that he's somehow "unamerican" on this issue. And not only that, it's a sly reintroduction of the "his Islamic sounding name" issue, even though the man's a devout Christian. That eumphemism's a "smear two-fer!"

I find it funny, in a very bitter, Evelyn Waugh sort of way. But I know that smears and deceptive terminology work for the GOP, it's what the party substitutes for "achievement." Thanks for reporting it in advance, before I have to hear it on local conservative talk radio next week.

Posted by Bill Prendergast | September 5, 2008 4:48 PM

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